"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images." - Ingmar Bergman Andrey Tarkovsky Kurosawa Fellini Ingmar Bergman Antonioni BIBLIO * [ advertising space : webmaster ] Search The Internet Movie Database Enter the name of a movie, TV show, or person and then click "Go" to get more information about it/them from imdb.com.   Short List: Anatomy of Film. Dick, Bernard F. Complete Guide to Standard Script Formats - Part II Haag, Judith H. A DIRECTOR'S METHOD FOR FILM AND TELEVISION, Ron Richards Directors on Directing: Source Book of the Modern Theater; Cole, Toby Film Director's Team, The: A Practical Guide for Production Managers, Assistant Directors, and All Filmmakers; SILVER, ALAIN & WARD, ELIZABETH FILM AND ITS TECHNIQUES; Spottiswoode, Raymond. Film Sense; Eisenstein, Sergei M. THE FIVE C'S OF CINEMATOGRAPHY; MASCELLI, Joseph V. (Introduction Arthur C. Miller). How to Prepare a Production Budget for Film & Video Tape; Costa, Sylvia Allen How to shoot a movie & video story: the technique of pictorial continuity, rev & enlarged ed Gaskill, Arthur L. and Englander, David A. The Independent Film and Videomakers Guide; Wiese, Michael Ingmar Bergman Directs; Simon, John Making Movies. Lumet, Sidney On Screen Directing. Dmytryk, Edward Sidney Lumet: Film and Literary Vision. [LUMET, SIDNEY] BOWLES, STEPHEN E. THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING. REISZ, Karel. VIDEOTAPE EDITING: A POSTPRODUCTION PRIMER; BROWNE, STEVEN E. the Work of the Film Director; Reynertson, A.J. [B&N out of print books]

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Fall 2006: Directing by Rabiger 3rd. ed.

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Textbook Spring 2004: Grammar of the Film Language, Daniel Arijon

1. Film Language as a System of Visual Communication

Intro
Beginnings of film language
Forms of film expression
Defining out aims

(History)

2. The Importance of Parallel Film Editing

(Montage)
Two basic types
Action and Reaction
Peak moments and the understanding
How parallel editing is obtained
A wider perspective

3. Defining the Basic Tools

Newsreel
Documentary
Fiction film
Three types of scene
Elements of film grammar
The shot
Movement
Distances
Types of editing
Visual punctuation
Scene matching
Opposed glances
Centre of interest alternates

The Triangle Principle

Basic body position
Line of interest
[ I have to comment only on the most important pages in your reading. ]

5. Dialogue Between Two Players

... pp.50-74 -- the cases.

6. Three-Player Dialogue

... [ 5-6-7 chapters must be read together, exerc. in class ]

7. Dialogue Involving Four or More Persons

... One, Two, Three, Many -- principle ideas.

8. Editing Patterns for Static Dialogue Scenes

pp.135: Sequences -- segmentation ideas (again).

9. The Nature of Screen Motion

* Should I move this and the two chapters after to the top of the course?

10. Cutting After the Movement

p.178: if you get this idea of cut, you understood "montage"!

11. Motion Inside the Screen

...

12. Motion Into and Out of Shot

... This and the nest chapter are the showcases again.

13. Player "A" moves towards Player "B"

[ maybe I should skip some chapters all together. ]

14. Using Master Shots to Cover Motions on the Screen

...

15. Irregular Cases

...16. Player "A" moves away from Player "B"

17. Players Move Together

...

18. Solving Difficult Editing Situations

...

19. Other Types of Motion

...

20. Twenty Basic Rules for Camera

... Movement and the camera (380)
Basic guidelines for camera movement
Dramatic motivation

21. The Panning Camera

...

22. The Travellibg Camera

...

23. Camera Crane and the Zoom

...

24. Action Scenes

... Standard formulas
The subjective point of view

Five ways of enhancing visula action
Reaching a visual climax
Breaking the climatic action into several shots
High speed and slow motion

Follow focus technique

25. Editing in the Camera

... Pre-planning (502)
The pause between movements
The change of zone

26. Moving from Zone to Zone

...

27. Combined Techniques

... Shot by shot editing
Merging the techniques
Summing up

28. Film Punctuation

...Transtion from scene to scene: fade out-- fate in
White-outs and color fades
Dissolve
Wipe
Iris
Use of dark areas
Titles
Props
Light change
Question and answer
A movement in the same direction
Substitution of an object
Word repetition
A deceptive visula match
Cutting around a prop
A sudden close up
Transition by parallel editing
Scene openers

The Actor

The camera

Introducing POV

Jump cuts as punctuation

Jumps cuts as time transitions

Selected peaks of action

Inaction as punctuation

Sinle shots as pauses in narration

An entire sequence used as a narrative pause

Dark screen used as punctuation

Punctuation by camera motion

Virtical punctuation

Frozen frame

textbooks page

Books Directories: Theatre Books, Film and online film books and (links).

For SCRIPT analysis see Books Page in its directory. The same with METHOD acting or Biomechanics (how to work with actors). If you need the bacis of theatry, go to 200X Aesthetics and check the reading list (All directories are listed in the floating frame -- tope left, in the end).

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